He played the biggest gig of his career to date at the venue in the summer and local lad Chris Ramsey will be back at the Metro Radio Arena for another massive show next summer.

Chris, who will soon take to the stage for the Laffs4Kids fundraiser at Newcastle City Hall, was last in the Toon in May when he was just a bit excited about playing the famous arena.

Speaking to Chronicle Live at the time, he said: “This is big time for me. I didn’t even think it was attainable; I didn’t even think about putting it on my to do list in case I got laughed out of town.

“I’m doing the arena in the same way that as a kid you’d think ‘I’m going to jump across that stream’ just to see if you could actually do it. That’s basically what it is.”

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“The idea of that amount of people coming to see you is just nuts but the support up is here is just amazing.”

The show, which included an inflatable stage, went down a treat with Chris’ captive audience and there is sure to be some more high jinx as the South Shields returns to the arena on November 3 next year for his ‘Just Happy To Get Out Of the House’ tour.

As well as becoming a dad in 2015, it’s been a cracking a few years professionally for Chris with his well received Comedy Central Show, a presenting role on I’m A Celebrity spin-off Extra Camp, nationwide tours and regular appearances on panel shows like Virtually Famous and Celebrity Juice.